Construction of inkstands by the employment of a capillary wick with



sTETEs PATENT oEEioE;

JOHN FARLEY, OF VASHINGTON, VDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

CONSTRUCTION OF INKSTANDS BY THE EMPLOYMENT OF A CAPILLARY WICK WITH AN AIB-TIGHT STOPPER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 1,957, dated January 30, 1841.

To all 107mm it may concern Be it known that I, JNO. FARLEY, of l/Vashington, District of Columbia, have invented a new and improved Mode of Using Ordinary Vriting-Ink, and hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description.

The nature of my invention is such as to accomplish all the desiderata in writing such as facility in the use of the ink-purity in the fluid-preservation from molding, &c., by the employment of capillary attraction in the following manner7 viz: I provide the stand with an airtight stopper DX which screws into the to-p and center of the stand. In the center of this stopper is a small funnel or reservoir communicating by an aperture with the interior. Through this aperture I insert a wick, as shown at C, possessing the capillary property of the spo-nge. The stopper being screwed down causes the ink to rise in the reservoir for use in a pure and limpid state and by reversing the inotion the ink falls lat pleasure and as secured from deterioration or accident. The capillary action being an independent effect, per se will result with or without the intervention of a tube, as shown in the marginal drawing, which may therefore be considered a modiiication kor omitted.

`What I claim as my invention and-desire to secure by Letters Patent isr he employment of a capillary act-ion for the purpose of supplying the ink as herein described in combination with the air-tight stopper arranged and operating as above set forth.

vWashington D. C., Nov. 17th, 1840.

J NO. FARLEY. [n s] Witnesses:

M. LANGTREE,

Y, WALSH, 

